WRI Affiliates

“Our House” was founded in December 2002 as a self-published newspaper with the same name in Belarus. In 2010, the formerly small-format newsletter “Our House”, which told citizens about concrete examples of fighting for their rights, evolved into a real colorful full-size newspaper for free distribution to the mailboxes of residents of Belarusian cities – facing multiple arrests, detentions of circulation, arrests of activists with copies and fines.

Due to numerous violations of citizens’ rights, it was not possible to register as an organisation in Belarus. In 2014, “Our House” was registered in Lithuania and has since been presented as a non-profit organisation, International Centre for Civil Initiatives “Our House”

After the presidential election and protests in Belarus in 2020, and the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine in 2022, a huge number of people in Belarus and Lithuania were in need of humanitarian assistance. Thus, “Our House” has taken over the provision of this assistance. Paying fines and food to victims in Belarus, providing psychological support, finding jobs, and helping refugees in Lithuania with accommodation, food and clothing became the main activities of “Our House” today. Our House also continues to monitor human rights violations in cooperation with other organisations.

Agir pour la Paix has as its first objective to inform and sensitize the general public in French-speaking Belgium on subjects that threaten the general interest and peace and which are often unknown. Agir pour la Paix is also raising awareness of the issue of the presence of nuclear weapons in Belgium, the role and drifts of NATO, new weapons technology, military spending, lobbying On activist movements in Belgium, on nonviolent direct action, civil disobedience, direct democracy, etc.

Vredesactie is a pluralistic organisation that is part of the peace movement, making a radical plea for a society in which conflicts are resolved without violence or the threat of violence. Vredesactie is an engine for the development of non-violent action and the realization of a pacifist peace policy.

The mission of the Central Africa Human Rights Defenders Networks known by the French acronym REDHAC is to campaign and take concrete nonviolent actions in advocating for democracy and the respect of human rights in the countries of the Central African region.

Centre for Peace Studies (CMS; CPS) is a non-governmental and non-profit organisation promoting non-violence and social change through education, research and activism. CMS grew out of various forms of direct peace-building in western Slavonia (Volunteers’ Project Pakrac, 1993-1997). It was founded in 1996 in Pakrac and formally registred in Zagreb the following year.

freedom * responsibility * involvement

As a social and ecological non-governmental organisation, we work principally on the basis that ecological and social problems have shared causes and consequences which must be resolved. All our activities aim to show that social change based on respect for people, animals and nature is possible, and, most importantly, must be led from below. Therefore, we support people who are interested and engaged in what’s happening around them and who consider responsibility for life on our planet as an integral part of their own freedom. We work independently of party and economic interests, using strictly non-violent means.

We are working to find alternatives to military buildup, and to develop forms of defense based on nonviolence.

Abolishing humiliating and breaking-up Egyptian youth in the name of compulsory recruitment, and abolishing all traits of militarist rule.

The Committee of 100 in Finland is a pacifist and antimilitarist peace organization, working for disarmament.

Samtök hernaðarandstæðinga campaigns for:

• Iceland to resign from NATO and refrain from participation in military alliances;
• Iceland to formally terminate the bilateral defense agreement with The United States of America;
• No military camps or military exercises either in Iceland or in its sovereign waters;
• Iceland and its waters to be declared free of any use, traffic or storage of nuclear weapons;
• Iceland's constitution to uphold that Iceland will never wage war on any nation or support such actions in speech or action.

CAM will fight against any nuclear armament and partake in international peace and disarmament work.

Movement of Conscientious Objectors to military service in Russia (MCO) is a non-profit organization. Since 2014 we have been helping young people to legally exempt themselves from conscription to military service. MCO develops materials for recruits, consults and collects information about the conscription.